Season 1 of the show took place in 1998, and our latest Carrie fan/math wizard notes that "considering Inflation, what cost .75 cents at the start of the series now costs us $1." And here's what she presumes Carrie's budget was, while making $1,500/month: 2-3 packs of cigarettes a week: $49/month ($3.50 a pack!) Expensive cocktails: $33/week or $132/month Brunch: $121/month Designer shoes: $303/month Cabs: $228/month on transportation Landline phone: $125/month Utilities (Carrie doesn't have TV, internet, or air conditioning at this time): $60/month Rent (in her rent controlled apartment): $750/month Someone get us our abacus
These numbers might look crazy today but the 5-hour-long modern Tour de France stages are nothing compared to 18 hours a day spent in the saddle that riders had to endure in the early 1900s
A presale session will be happening on Thursday (May 23) from 10am to 11.59pm
They charge the warnings no longer give facts to allow people to make a decision about whether to smoke, but will force them to put government anti-smoking advocacy more prominently on cigarette packs than their own brand names
As long as he was alive, this expedition hadn't been a complete and utter disaster
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